Car-bolster.



J. A. LAMONT.

GAB BOLSTEB.

APPLIoATIoH FILED AUG. 1a, 190e.

Patented July 2, 1912.

UNITED I,sriiriasfrATiiNfi OFFICE.

JOHN'A. LAMONT, '0F GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN STEEL FOUNDBIES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CAB-BOLSTEB.

Specification ot Letters retenu Application tiled August 18, 1909. Serial No. 518,898.

Patented July a, 1912.

obvious, to produce beams or bolsters of this character at small expense from rolledl beams readily purchased on the market.

In accordance with the principles and yideas of this invention, I remove or cut I usually remove web sections of such sha e that the resulting welded edges will be 1n the neutral plane or axis of the beam so that the joint or seam will be subjected in use to little or no strain.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates the method of carrying out this invention, I have shown, in Figure 1, one of the completed holsters; in Fig. 2, the manner of removing the end web sections is indicated; Fig. 3 is a central cross section on line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a similar cross section through a modified form of beam or bolster; and Fig. 5 is a cross section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1. .,a.

'Reference to the drawing vtill indicate that from aI section of I-beam, 'or a beam of any of the usual and ordinary cross sections, I cut out tapered end portions from the web 10, leaving at the two ends of the blank the tapered recesses or apertures 11, 11, the margins of the outer ort-ions of which, 12 and 13, are substantially parallel, while the margins of the inner portions of the same, 14 and 15, converge. and meet at the apex or point 16. The ends of this beam blank 17 are cut so that after the remaval of the sections indicated, the lower strips 18 will be somewhat longer than the corresponding parallel upper strips 19, where y when these lower portions are bent to place the ends of both parts will be in substantiall `the same line as indicated in Fig. 1. A er these end sections have been cut out from a beam of substantially uniform depth, and preferably of any suitable commercial rolled section. the parts 18 are 'bent so as to bring the edges 13 and 15 `into engagement with the opposite edges-.12

and 14, and subsequently these edges are welded together by the employment of an electric arc which is caused to travel over the same,'or by the use of any other suitable welding means. In Fig. 1, the dotted lines 20 indicate the joints or seams produced by such union or welding of these ed es, and it should be noted that the shapes o the parts cut out from the web are preferably so chosen that the seams or joints 20, at least for a portion of their length, will coincide with the neutral axis of the finished beam.

At its center, the upper part of the web 10 is cutaway at 21 for the accommodation of the king pin, the oppositely projecting, top marginal flanges of the beam being also centrally apertured at 22 to receive such pin, and to this central part of the bolster I fasten, by means of rivets 23 or otherwise, a center plate or bearing 24 of the usual or any suitable construct-ion, the same desirably having outer marginal flanges 25 overlapping the edges of the beam, as is shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 3. The top flanges of this bolster also have secured thereto near their ends side bearings 26, and the bolster at its sides has secured thereto, by means of rivets 27 (Fig. 5) passing through the top and bottom flanges of the bolster, column guides 28, each of which has a pair of inwardly extended flanges'or .ribs 29, through which these rivets also pass for the proper securing and eflicient holding of the side column-guides in position. f In some instances it may be desirable 'to provide the top flange of the bolster with downwardly extending, marginal stiiieningV flanges, and I have therefore indicated in Fig. 4 a cross section of a specially formed beam 30 of substantially I-shape, having at its top downwardly extended, mar inal flanges 31, this beam being susceptib e of and. vfeatures herein indicated except to the.

`the finished bolster of Fig. 4 would be substantially like thatpf Fig. 1. l v

This invention, 1t is to be understood, is not to be limited to the recise constructions extent re'quired by the scope of the appended claims, it'being a parent that the invention is susceptible o a large variety of uses and of ya considerable'number of modificat-ions'without departure from its heart and substance. V Il claim:

1. A bellied metal beam, bolster or the like, having a bellied web, a longitudinal /seam extending inwardly from one end thereof, and an oblique seam leading inwardly from the inner end of the longitu dinal seam and inclined downwardly toward and terminating adjacent the bottom of the bellied portion of the'beam, substantially aal described. y

2. A bellied beam formed of a rolled metal flanged shape having its web portion integral and unbroken throughout its entire reducedV end portions, each reduced end portion having a welded longitudinal seam'extending inwardly from the outer end of said ortion `and a Welded oblique seam leadin inwardly from the inner endof the longitudinal seam and inclined toward and terminating adjacent the bottom of the bellied portion of the beam, substantially as described.

JOHN-A. LAMONT. Witnesses:

` E. B. SHERZER,

v JAS. H. LoUm. 

